XPath Tutorial (and How to Use them for Web Scraping)

XPaths are essential when scraping data (even if you use No-Code tools).
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01:39 --- How to Read an HTML Document
05:42 --- The Different Kinds of XPaths
08:40 --- The "Cheat Sheet"
29:15 --- Writing your XPaths for Web Scraping

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[@slimshadeless]

Solid tutorial, helped me a lot! Adding chapter breaks to the time bar to divide up the topics in the video would be a great addition. It would make this tutorial a little more navigation friendly for people like me who constantly come back to the video for refreshers. ** Edit - There are markers in the description! Exactly what I needed, missed them earlier **

[@balazspekar4744]

Top notch content Francois, thank you. Super valuable content, I have learned a lot, xpath is more powerful than I thought.

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

You are welcome. It is the fundamental of any good script.

[@tatianahadedokun100]

Well done Francois. Thank you for this video. It made me Understand XPATH more. Although i'm still finding it tedious, but I'm sure i can get a hang of it.

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

I am glad to hear that. I am sure you will understand XPATH perfectly in a few weeks. If it is easy, there is no fun doing it ;)

[@philtarry2558]

Hi - just starting out with Octoparse and this is really helpful. Are you able to share a copy of the word doc with all the different xpath types? Thanks!

[@mohammadmahmoud2027]

François, thanks so much for this extremely useful video. Don't worry about your French accent, I understood it well although I'm not an English speaking person. You have done good. I turned on the subtitles/cc and I was able to follow your explanation. However, you presented a lot of information that need to be saved. Since you turned off the transcript of the video, there is no way to save the information. Thanks anyway with best wishes. 👍

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

Hello Mohammad, You are welcome. And thank you for your feedback.

[@danielaamaro5210]

Hi François, what's the extension you're using on your browser to see the results of the xpath query? Thanks! Great video

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

Hi, It is "XPath Helper".

[@danielaamaro5210]

@@francoisfromoctoparse Thanks a lot!!! Has already helped me in my project

[@mussaddiqhusain8505]

Great tutorial... How to scrape amazon pages containing social media links of Influencers as it uses same frame ?...some Influencers having only one link like youtube while some having all socil media links how to scrape social media links of multiple amazon links ?

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

XPaths can do the job.

[@user-on8kp5mp6u]

Hello Francois, thanks for a very helpful video! I wanted to ask if you could please share the cheat sheet ? it is definitely a game changer. thank you very much 3>

[@francoisfromoctoparse]

Hello, I don't have any cheat sheet. But I am pretty sure you can find one on Octoparse blog posts.

[@Visualife]